Monday, January 30, 2017

Attention whore and former president Barack Obama lasted ten whole days before being compelled to insert himself into partisan politics, into the argument about Trump's immigration EO. And, true to form, Barry got it wrong! Instead of a ban on religion, Trump used Barry's own list of proscribed countries. Religion was not mentioned. Was Obama wrong then? Or now? (Or both?)
I'd like to dedicate this song to Lonesome Barry:

Sunday, January 29, 2017

An Arkansas divorce lawyer was brought before his state's ethics board, after numerous reports that he had overcharged his clients for consultants neither requested or prudent for simple divorce cases, notably, charges for services from famous urologists and even archaeologists. "In my defense," he said, "my clients often ask me to help them determine what's urine and what's Mayan."

The butt-hurt media
poodles have had a field day comparing the crowd size of The World’s Most
Dangerous Community Organizer’s inauguration to that of Trump’s.

What the shills did
to bolster their point was to set photographs side by side of the National Mall
taken at 11:04 AM for Trump’s swearing in and the other guy’s at 11:30 AM.

With clear security
threats that were telegraphed by anarchists weeks before the event, a massive
number of checkpoints for screening made getting to the venue difficult if not
impossible. Troublemakers had threatened
to throw chains on the Metro rails to stop the trains from running. People with jobs weren’t able to attend. Paid protesters, paid dissidents and George
Soros backed anarchists made every effort to disrupt Trump’s inaugural.

The media will not
know exactly how many people attended Trump’s inauguration until a final count
is released in a few weeks according to a published report.

Their argument is irrelevant. Trump got a bigger crowd on the National Mall for his inauguration than Hillary.

And actually, Trump
might have been seen by more viewers than either Obama or Reagan. Nielsen
ratings do not account for online viewing, which has grown sharply in recent
years and is far more commonplace than even four years ago. CNN, for example, clocked 16.9 million
streams on its website, tying with Election Day for the site’s top event.

Fox News topped all networks with its coverage,
averaging 8.8 million viewers for the day and peaking with 11 million viewers
from noon to 1 PM. This was the highest-rated inauguration coverage in the
network’s history. While on broadcast, NBC
was first with 5.8 million viewers for the day.

The big broadcast
networks, big newspapers, activists and intellectuals, pundits and columnists
of the left oppose, even hate Trump, and will not let up because their corrupt,
haggard, lying-her-ass-off Granny lost a winnable election.

Why is the left in
such hysterics over Trump’s inauguration? Everyone’s had two months to get
their affairs in order. Hee hee.

Thursday, January 19, 2017

President-elect of
The United States Donald J. Trump and first Lady-elect Melania Trump arrive at
Joint Base Andrews the day before his swearing in January 19, 2017. (Photo by
Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images)

US President-elect
Donald Trump and his wife Melania arrive to attend an inauguration concert at
the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on January 19, 2017. (Photo
credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

There is a photograph
of President Barack Obama with Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ bust
of Abraham Lincoln visible in the background. Through the magic of Photoshop™ I reworked
the photograph to bring Lincoln into full focus.

When he placed his
hand upon Lincoln’s Bible on January 20, 2009 Barack Obama declared he was
committed to celebrating American unity and the use of the historic Bible would
provide a powerful connection to our “common past and common heritage.”

When Lincoln placed
his hand upon this very same Bible 148 years earlier a Civil War threatened to
destroy the country. On Friday, 156
years later, President-elect Donald Trump will place his hand upon Lincoln’s
Bible as he takes the Oath of Office. He
will assume the mantle of President of the United States at a time of great
unrest at home and abroad.

Upon learning of
Obama’s disgraceful commutation of Army Pfc. Manning, I wondered if the ghost
of Lincoln ever spoke to him during his eight failed years as president.

“Mr. President, when
I took the Oath of Office I was aware I followed greatly distinguished men who
administered the Executive Branch of the Government through many perils and
generally with great success.”

“I concluded my
Inaugural Address by affirming to those there assembled, ‘we are not enemies,
but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must
not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from
every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all
over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again
touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.’”

“I have watched from
this shelf upon which you placed me eight years ago the menace of racial division
inflicted by you. Through the slipstream
of time I witnessed the zenith of your campaign to become the 44th president by
placing your hand upon my Bible and citing my words. Your heady talk of emulating me gave way to
cynicism and complacency. The connection
to me you so desperately sought to make was maddeningly out of reach.”

“Those who will take
your place at the 58th Presidential Inauguration have the difficult task made
harder by you to mitigate the damage done to a great nation. I believe they truly seek the illumination of
my legacy. Your failures will haunt you
all the days of your life.”

“I was heartbroken
the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture omitted
the enormous legacy and impact of Justice Clarence Thomas and chose instead to
give you a large presence in the museum.
It must, therefore, be galling to know Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
will swear in Mike Pence using the Bible that President Reagan used for both of
his inaugurals.”

“Racial discord will
not be your only legacy I fear. The American
people to whom you are beholding have suffered greatly by your arrogance,
fecklessness and intolerance of political opponents. You have sought, at every turn, to take away
Americans’ right to bear arms, your administration covered up the murder of
four Americans in Benghazi and most egregiously you lied repeatedly about your ‘signature’
law that upended healthcare and you did nothing to end the persecution of
Christians.”

“The loathing for
Israel you demonstrated sickened me. I
could enumerate a litany of failures and scandals besmirching your tenure as
you faltered day after day destroying a nation built by great men and women.”

“I stand firm in my
belief that once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens you can
never regain their respect and esteem.”

“You should have
heeded my words, ‘With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness
in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the
work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have
borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve
and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

“Your heart will be
filled with sorrow knowing you were at the apex of history and squandered
it. It is a bitter agony for me.”

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Let me begin this post by explaining the graphic associated
with it. In the background is a dumpster
fire representing the Democrat Party The World’s Most Dangerous Community
Organizer has single-handedly destroyed.
The mid-ground includes a sculpture by Italian sculptor Davide Dormino
entitled “Anything
to say?” of whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and
Bradley/Chelsea Manning. The
controversial piece has been on display in Paris, Berlin, Belgrade, Rome and
the plaza at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva.

Dormino lauds the art
saying it "pays homage to three who said no to war, to the lies that lead to war
and to the intrusion into private life that helps to perpetuate war” What a
dick.

The foreground is
self-explanatory.

This is the real
Democrat Party. This is the real
Barack Obama—an extremely left-wing ideologue—who is anti-law and order,
anti-military, anti-America.

Government
lawyers cited al-Qaeda magazine in an effort to prove Pfc. Bradley Manning knowingly
aided the enemy by posting documents
on WikiLeaks.

Al-Qaeda leaders reveled in a WikiLeaks’ publication of
reams of classified U.S. documents, urging members to study them before
devising ways to attack the United States, according to evidence presented by
the prosecution in the court-martial of an Army private who leaked
the material.

…The government presented another uncontested written
statement that former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden asked for and
received from an associate the Afghanistan battlefield reports that WikiLeaks
published. The material was found on digital media seized in the May 2011
raid on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, [lead prosecutor Maj.
Ashden] Fein said. Bin Laden was killed in the raid.

These “battlefield
reports” are what WikiLeaks refers to as the “Afghan War Diary,” a trove of
“over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.” WikiLeaks
withheld 15,000 of these reports from its initial release because even the
anti-government group recognized the sensitivity of their contents. Still, the
diary covers a “range of topics”: “Improvised Explosives Devices encountered,
offensive operations, taking enemy fire, engagement with possible hostile
forces, talking with village elders, numbers of wounded, dead, and detained,
kidnappings, broader intelligence information and explicit threat warnings from
intercepted radio communications, local informers or the [Afghan] police.”

The files Manning
copied included about 250,000 diplomatic cables from American embassies around
the world showing sensitive deals and conversations, dossiers detailing
intelligence assessments of Guantánamo detainees held without trial, and a
video of an
American helicopter attack in Baghdad in which two Reuters journalists were killed, among
others.

Obama frees Wikileaks' chief leaker and ally.

He and other Democrats can stop feigning outrage about Russia, leaks, and hacking now.

Something
that’s been tumbling around the Internet for a while now seems to have gained enough
steam that today on Fox & Friends,
conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham stated she is eyeing a senate
run against Hillary’s crutch Tim Kaine in 2018.

The UVA Law School
grad, former attorney and Reagan speechwriter said she's been flattered by several
"well-connected" people in Virginia asking her to be a candidate.

Ed Morrissey of Hot
Air noted, “It’s not difficult to understand why party leaders in
Virginia would want Ingraham in the race. She’s sharp, well attuned to the
state’s politics, and most importantly a well-known conservative whose
personality would provide an immediate contrast to the current,
somewhat-less-than-exciting incumbent. Unlike others who might get drafted into
that position through the normal bench in Virginia, Kaine won’t overshadow
Ingraham in a straight-up fight.”

“Ingraham is to be
taken seriously. It certainly would make the Virginia Senate race a national
affair, and that alone would help Republicans in a midterm fight if they can
manage to accomplish the biggest parts of their agenda up front in 2017. It
certainly won’t be dull. At least, not on the Republican side,” added
Morrissey.

The Republican
primary could be crowded. Both Barbara Comstock and Dave Brat are considering a
bid, and Brat has already been singled out by Kaine as a top challenger. And
there are reports that former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina,
a 2010 California Senate candidate, also wants to run in Virginia.

Comstock was sworn in
to the 115th Congress on January 3rd marking her second term representing the
people of Virginia’s 10th Congressional District.

Brat is most known
for toppling then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a 2014 primary. Cantor arrogantly assumed he had the Speaker
of the House position locked up when John Boehner retired. Boehner, you’ll recall was replaced by Paul
Ryan.

Few people did more
than Ingraham and Mark Levin to propel Brat from obscurity to national
conservative hero. According to Ingraham
the [Republican] party leadership “needed a jolt.” Cantor was not seen as “conservative
enough”.

At a huge event held at the
Dominion Club, a tennis and golf club not far from Cantor’s home outside
Richmond, Ingraham asked the crowd, “Who do you think Barack Obama and Nancy
Pelosi want to win this primary? Why do they want Eric Cantor to win? They want Eric Cantor to win because Eric
Cantor is an ally in the fight for immigration amnesty.”

I suspect Tim Kaine possesses
an exaggerated sense of self-importance much like Cantor did; perhaps more.

If Laura Ingraham
does light the fuse on her candidacy, Kaine had better polish his circus act by
not being an over-caffeinated, overtly rude attack dog. His memorization of a laundry list of blatant
lies and catchy zingers ain’t gonna cut it.
Ms. Ingraham wrote the book on zingers.
Of
Thee I Zing

Sunday, January 15, 2017

Chuck Todd and NBC
are rejoicing in the turbulence created
during Todd’s interview
with Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) on Friday. The interview came on the heels of a 90-minute
closed door briefing with members of Congress earlier in the day during which
FBI Directory Comey “refused to clarify” whether his agency is investigating
President-elect Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.
Comey’s “lack of candor” angered legislators; most notably Rep. Lewis.

“I believe in
forgiveness. I believe in trying to work with people. It’s going to be hard.
It’s going to be very difficult. I don’t see this president-elect as a
legitimate president. I think the
Russians participated in helping this man get elected, and they helped destroy
the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. I don’t plan to attend the inauguration. It
would be the first one that I miss since I’ve been in the Congress. You cannot
be at home with something that you feel that is wrong. I think there was a conspiracy on the part of
the Russians and others to help him get elected. That’s not right. That’s not
fair. That’s not the open, democratic process,” Lewis said.

This is the same kind
of divisive rhetoric that Democrats
hated under Obama.

Congressman Lewis said he doesn't see Trump as a legitimate POTUS. In fairness, at 75 years young, he doesn't see much of anything anymore.

Lewis is notorious
for endlessly spewing the same tired dog whistle mantra of racism expecting
everyone to acquiesce because he’s a civil rights “icon”. Lewis has managed to wrap himself in anger
with a heavy dash of hate.

In October of 2008
Lewis accused
John McCain and Sarah Palin of stoking hate exclaiming, "What I am
seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American
history. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are
sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this
hostility in our political discourse."

“As public figures
with the power to influence and persuade, Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are
playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us
all," Lewis said. "They are playing a very dangerous game that
disregards the value of the political process and cheapens our entire
democracy. We can do better. The American people deserve better.” His full statement can be seen here.

McCain responded, "I am
saddened that John Lewis, a man I've always admired, would make such a brazen
and baseless attack on my character and the character of the thousands of
hardworking Americans who come to our events to cheer for the kind of reform
that will put America on the right track," the GOP nominee said in a
statement this afternoon.”

He added, "I
call on Senator Obama to immediately and personally repudiate these outrageous
and divisive comments that are so clearly designed to shut down debate 24 days
before the election. Our country must return to the important debate about the
path forward for America.”

Kevin Jackson,
proprietor of The
Black Sphere posited this thought:
“Fools like Lewis have outlived their usefulness for black people, and
he demonstrates just how badly he has sold out to the Democrats. The
Congressional Black Circus hasn’t helped blacks in any meaningful way, since
its inception. In fact, the CBC has made black Leftists the weakest whiners on
the planet.”

Lewis cannot be held
solely accountable for perpetuating this nonsense about Granny Clinton losing
the election due to Russian meddling. I
hold an equal amount of revulsion for #NeverTrumpers like Mitt Romney, Bill Kristol,
Jonah Goldberg and others, but my greatest ire is directed toward John McCain who
admitted
he gave an unverified, error-riddled “dossier” detailing claims of Russian
blackmail to the FBI.

Watching our
intelligence chiefs and McCain trying to blacken Trump's name by means of a sleazy,
unverified report about golden showers in a Moscow hotel, is particularly
ignoble.

The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post have been baying
for Trump's blood. Not since World War II has the media so dramatically dropped
its mask of ersatz impartiality to reveal its true political agenda.

Our intelligence
agencies are a vital component of national securitywhich
has become our new state religion. But in true bureaucratic form they have
become bloated, redundant and self-perpetuating. They need to be booted out of
politics.

UPDATE: Welcome readers of Adrienne’s
Corner. We appreciate Adrienne
linking to this post.

Friday, January 13, 2017

Yesterday,
from the East Room of the White House, The World’s Most Dangerous Community
Organizer bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Uncle Choo Choo.

It
seems the presentation which was made with an additional level of distinction
for the first time since President Stompyfoot’s predecessors gave it to Pope
John Paul II, President Ronald Reagan and Gen. Colin Powell was more for
Biden’s personal tragedy—the loss of his son Beau to cancer—than
anything else.

The nation's highest
civilian honor is supposed to be presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to
the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to
cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.

Perhaps some leeway could
be given if we take into account Uncle Goofball was forced to put up with a
president who climbed Mount Ego every day for 8 years. Joe did less than Hillary but he did it
without getting anybody killed. So
there’s that.

Via
The Washington Examiner—A
C-SPAN broadcast of proceedings in the House of Representatives cut away from a
floor speech by Maxine Waters (D-CA) to a broadcast of Russia Today for about 10 minutes Thursday.

Here's the moment Russia Today took over the C-SPAN1 feed. Unclear what happened. RT aired for about ten minutes before C-SPAN1 came back. pic.twitter.com/mhWVgCoFxF

"We are
currently investigating and troubleshooting this occurrence," it added.
"As RT is one of the networks we regularly monitor, we are operating under
the assumption that it was an internal routing issue. If that changes we will
certainly let you know."

Waters was in the
middle of talking about the Securities and Exchange Commission when the switch
took place. RT is a state-run media organization broadcast in English that is
often critical of the United States and particularly President Obama.

The only way the Russians could have reached less people than by hacking #Cspanhack would be to hack an episode of Houdini and Doyle.

For the first time
since 1981, Clemson captured a national championship with an incredible
35-31 win over top-ranked Alabama in the College Football Playoff
finale Monday night.

"Alabama was the
best team in the country up until the last second of this game," Clemson
coach Dabo Swinney told ESPN.

There’s a saying that
a man's true character is revealed in defeat. It’s also revealed in victory.

I am happy for Coach
Swinney. As a diehard Bama fan it hurt
my heart watching my beloved Crimson Tide go down in defeat. Clemson richly deserves to be the 2017
National Champions. Dabo made a wish
upon a star and his dream came true. I
hope he’s going to Disneyland!

Monday, January 9, 2017

As I have shared with
my blogging friend and SEC sister Diogenes,
I wanted Ohio State to beat the Clemson Tigers in the CFB Playoff Semifinal
Fiesta Bowl. I wanted to settle the
score from 2015 with the Buckeyes. Turns
out the Buckeyes were a bunch of weak sisters in a shutout beatdown. It was cringe-inducing for all those sports “experts”
who lay laurels at the feet of Urban Meyer.
Hope you enjoy your cold, protracted, humiliating winter.

Lane Kiffin is gone
by “mutual agreement” and in his place is Steve Sarkisian. This, I will admit, gives me some angst. This guy has a documented problem with alcohol
and a reputation for being a party guy.
He was even filmed having a booger snack during the Peach Bowl. Sarkisian had better toe the line at
Bama. Saban is a maniac disciplinarian. The Bama faithful will not accept a loss in tonight’s game.

Alabama is not the
number one team in the nation for nothin’.
Saban has given this man a chance to redeem himself. If he’s wise he won’t squander the
opportunity. There will be hell to pay
otherwise.

To those “staff
writers” I say Clemson couldn’t find a magic bullet last year and they haven’t
found one for tonight either. Bama’s
secondary is brutal, bruising and ginormous.
This game is going to be one helluva slobberknocker. There will be blood and mouthpieces strewn all
over the gridiron.

Dabo Sweeney wants
revenge. Nick Saban wants history and to
win his sixth national championship to tie him with the legendary Alabama coach
Paul “Bear” Bryant. The Tigers can rub
on that stupid Howard’s Rock all they want but Bama is stronger, quicker and
more determined than some orange-clad upstarts from a cow college.

Just like movie
sequels are disappointing, so too, will be Clemson’s stab at history. The Boys from Tuscaloosa will suffocate the kittehs. The Crimson and Houndstooth Dynasty will not
be dethroned and Clemson will be sucked into the same unforgiving abyss as
every other team that clashed with the Tide this season.

Sunday, January 8, 2017

There's nothing like
liberals in high dudgeon, incredulous that we would allow Russia to interfere
in our electoral process! When asked, of course, they have no evidence of any
direct link between the Russians and the WikiLeaks revelations of deceit,
misconduct and malicious mischief revealed in the emails of Hillary and her
closest friends and advisers.

And don't get them started
on FBI director James Comey! First he head fakes them into praising him for not
recommending Hillary for prosecution, then he announces he has new information,
after promising to inform them of any new information. Horrors!

Imagine if you will, a
world in which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accepts and uses a government
email account for 100% of her business related emails, and then turned over
100% of those emails on her last day in office, as was and is required by law.
In that world, where there are no private servers and no emails that weren't
submitted for public scrutiny four years before the 2016 election, what part is
there for Comey to play?

It seems a bit odd that
unless Russia somehow directed Hillary not to campaign in Wisconsin, instructed
her to drop like a rock at the end of the 9/11 memorial, or convinced her to
set up a private server and conduct State business on it, that Russia is in any
way culpable in Hillary's loss.